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India, 1857 - the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered to the one of the finest British novels of the last 50 years. A witty and individual take on the many traditions and follies of Empire, it is also a gripping account of survival under siege, illuminating how extreme conditions can influence and affect people's behaviour and the human spirit.

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The Singapore Grip

Autor:
J. G. Farrell

Sprecher:
Mike Grady

Spieldauer: 25 Std. und 19 Min.

Ungekürztes

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A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.

Troubles

Autor:
J. G. Farrell

Sprecher:
Kevin Hely

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 44 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

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Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.

The Sympathizer

Autor:
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Sprecher:
Francois Chau

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 53 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.

The North Water

Autor:
Ian McGuire

Sprecher:
John Keating

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 39 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
8

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
8

Behold the man: Stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the
Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this ill-fated voyage.

Mothering Sunday

Autor:
Graham Swift

Sprecher:
Eve Webster

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 14 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Award-winning writer Graham Swift returns with his profoundly moving new novel,
Mothering Sunday. It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?

5 out of 5 stars

Romance with a Sting

Von
BikerJoe
Am hilfreichsten
12.07.2017

The Noise of Time

Autor:
Julian Barnes

Sprecher:
Daniel Philpott

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 41 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
29

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
28

In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.

5 out of 5 stars

Ein Leben in stalinistischer Zeit

Von
Regine Siepmann-Okan
Am hilfreichsten
13.08.2018

The Singapore Grip

Autor:
J. G. Farrell

Sprecher:
Mike Grady

Spieldauer: 25 Std. und 19 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
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A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.

Troubles

Autor:
J. G. Farrell

Sprecher:
Kevin Hely

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 44 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

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Geschichte

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Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.

The Sympathizer

Autor:
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Sprecher:
Francois Chau

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 53 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.

The North Water

Autor:
Ian McGuire

Sprecher:
John Keating

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 39 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
8

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
8

Behold the man: Stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the
Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this ill-fated voyage.

Mothering Sunday

Autor:
Graham Swift

Sprecher:
Eve Webster

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 14 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Award-winning writer Graham Swift returns with his profoundly moving new novel,
Mothering Sunday. It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?

5 out of 5 stars

Romance with a Sting

Von
BikerJoe
Am hilfreichsten
12.07.2017

The Noise of Time

Autor:
Julian Barnes

Sprecher:
Daniel Philpott

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 41 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
29

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
28

In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.

5 out of 5 stars

Ein Leben in stalinistischer Zeit

Von
Regine Siepmann-Okan
Am hilfreichsten
13.08.2018

The Underground Railroad

Autor:
Colson Whitehead

Sprecher:
Bahni Turpin

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 50 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
34

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
33

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
33

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.

Lincoln in the Bardo

A Novel

Autor:
George Saunders

Sprecher:
Nick Offerman,
David Sedaris,
George Saunders,
und andere

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 25 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
25

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
22

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
22

The long-awaited first novel from the author of
Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill.

5 out of 5 stars

Extremely entertaining

Von
Jasmin Humburg
Am hilfreichsten
26.05.2017

The Remains of the Day

Autor:
Kazuo Ishiguro

Sprecher:
Dominic West

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 5 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
178

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
164

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
165

A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside – and into his past.

überzeugend

Imperium

Autor:
Robert Harris

Sprecher:
Bill Wallis

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 51 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
75

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
71

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
70

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state.

5 out of 5 stars

Hoechst unterhaltsam

Von
LorABoe
Am hilfreichsten
13.08.2017

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

Autor:
Peter Frankopan

Sprecher:
Laurence Kennedy

Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 14 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
63

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
57

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
56

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.

3 out of 5 stars

Etwas zu lang und zähflüssig

Von
Daniel
Am hilfreichsten
28.01.2017

The God of Small Things

Autor:
Arundhati Roy

Sprecher:
Aysha Kala

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 26 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
21

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
19

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
20

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India,
The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family - their lonely, lovely mother; their beloved uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom pincher); and their avowed enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).

Augustus

Autor:
John Williams

Sprecher:
Robin Field

Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 15 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

3.5 out of 5 stars
15

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
12

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
13

A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.

1 out of 5 stars

Absolute rubbish

Von
penemu2000
Am hilfreichsten
21.10.2017

His Bloody Project

Autor:
Graeme Macrae Burnet

Sprecher:
Crawford Logan,
Cameron Mowat

Spieldauer: 10 Std.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
14

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
14

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
14

A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of 17-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? Presented as a collection of documents,
His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers, which offer conflicting impressions, throwing Macrae's motive and his sanity into question.

Autumn

Seasonal Quartet, Book 1

Autor:
Ali Smith

Sprecher:
Melody Grove

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 27 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
8

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
8

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour hit of Pop Art - via a bit of skullduggery -
Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past.
Autumn is a take on popular culture and a meditation in a world growing ever more bordered: what constitutes richness and worth?

Days Without End

Autor:
Sebastian Barry

Sprecher:
Aidan Kelly

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 58 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
4

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Having signed up for the US Army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and ultimately the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in, they find these days to be vivid. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past.

On Tyranny

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Autor:
Timothy Snyder

Sprecher:
Timothy Snyder

Spieldauer: 1 Std. und 47 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
24

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
25

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the 20th century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.